Mark Carwardine
Born	9 March 1959 (1959-03-09) (age 50)
Known for	Conservationist, zoologist, presenter, photographer and writer
Website www.markcarwardine.com/

Mark Carwardine^[1] (born 9 March 1959) is a zoologist, an active and outspoken conservationist, an award-winning writer, a TV and radio presenter, a widely published photographer, a magazine columnist and a conservation consultant.

Contents 1 Writing 2 Radio and television 3 Photography 4 Wildlife tours 5 Wildlife Art Company 6 Selected bibliography 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Writing

Carwardine has written more than 50 books. Most recently he has written Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams (HarperCollins, 2009). This is a sequel to the best-selling book, Last Chance to See, which he wrote with the late Douglas Adams (author of The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy). Other books that Carwardine has written include the award-winning Shark Watcher’s Handbook and Eyewitness Handbooks: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises, which is the best-selling cetacean field guide ever published (nearly a million copies in print). Carwardine also writes a monthly column in BBC Wildlife magazine, and has written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines.

[edit] Radio and television

Carwardine joined forces with Stephen Fry to present a six-part BBC2 television series, Last Chance to See,^[2] about endangered species – as inspired by the eponymous best-selling book, which Carwardine wrote some 20 years ago with the late Douglas Adams. The TV series updated most of the endangered species featured in the original book and looked at many other new ones, including the Amazonian manatee, the northern white rhino in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the aye-aye in Madagascar, the Komodo dragon in Indonesia, the kakapo in New Zealand and the blue whale in Baja California, Mexico.

The original book (1990) and subsequent Radio 4 series described eight expeditions to find endangered species around the world: the aye-aye in Madagascar, Komodo dragon in Indonesia, kakapo in New Zealand, Amazonian manatee in Brazil, Yangtze river dolphin in China, Juan Fernandez fur seal in Chile, northern white rhino in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rodrigues fruit bat in Mauritius.

He is currently co-presenting The Museum of Life, a BBC2 television series due to be broadcast in spring 2010. Carwardine also presented the weekly half-hour radio programme Nature, on BBC Radio 4, for many years. He has also been the presenter for a number of other programmes for BBC Radio 4, including the weekly half-hour programme Nature^[3].

[edit] Photography

Carwardine has an extensive collection of wildlife, nature and environment photographs taken on all seven continents and in more than a hundred countries. He has also been Chairman of the judging panel for the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife, since 2005.

[edit] Wildlife tours

Carwardine was a founding director of the wildlife travel companies Discover the World, WildOceans and Ocean Wanderers, and now runs whale-watching tours to Baja California, Mexico ^[4] and occasional specialist wildlife photography trips.

[edit] Wildlife Art Company

Carwardine has recently started a wildlife illustration agency, the Wildlife Art Company, which sells natural-history illustrations to publishers.^[5]

[edit] Selected bibliography

Carwardine has written more than 50 books, including the following:

• Last Chance to See: In the footsteps of Douglas Adams, with foreword by Stephen Fry (HarperCollins, 2009) ISBN 978-0007290727
• Last Chance to See, with Douglas Adams (Arrow Books, 2009, 2nd edition) ISBN 978-0099536796
• Natural History Museum Animal Records (Natural History Museum, 2007) ISBN 13-978-0-565-09223-8
• Collins Wild Guide: Whales & Dolphins (HarperCollins, 2006) ISBN 0-00-720547-3
• Extreme Nature, with Rosamund Kidman Cox (HarperCollins, 2005) ISBN 978-0-0-0724648-9
• Shark (BBC Books, 2004) ISBN 0-563-48723-2
• Mark Carwardine's Guide to Whalewatching: Britain and Europe (New Holland Publishers, 2003) ISBN 1-84330-059-1
• The Shark Watcher's Handbook: A guide to sharks and where to see them, with Ken Watterson (BBC Books, 2002) ISBN 0-563-53794-9
• Killer Whales (BBC Books, 2001) ISBN 0-563-53407-9
• The Guinness Book of Animal Records (Guinness Publishing, 1995) ISBN 0-85112-658-8
• Eyewitness Handbooks: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises (Dorling Kindersley, 1995) ISBN 0-7513-1030-1
• On the Trail of the Whale with foreword by Paul McCartney (Thunder Bay Publishing Co, 1994) ISBN 1-899074-00-7
• Last Chance to See, with Douglas Adams (Pan Books, 1991) ISBN 0-330-32002-5
• Birds in Focus (Salamander, 1990) ISBN 0-86101-544-4
• The Encyclopedia of World Wildlife with foreword by David Attenborough (Octopus Publishing, 1986) ISBN 0-7064-2437-9
• The Nature of Zimbabwe: A guide to conservation and development issues (IUCN,1988) ISBN 2-88032-933-7
• The Nature of Zambia: A guide to conservation and development issues (IUCN, 1988) ISBN 2-88032-403-3
• The Nature of Pakistan: A guide to conservation and development issues (IUCN,1986) ISBN 2-88032-404-1
• Iceland: Nature's Meeting Place, with foreword by the President of Iceland (Iceland Review, 1986) ISBN 0-948192-02-X

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Carwardine's official website
• Radio 4 Nature "listen again" to episodes, circa 2003, presented by Carwardine, in Real Audio format.
• Radio 4 'Tough Lives' "listen again" to a series presented by Carwardine, in Real Audio format.
• Wildlife Art Company
• Stephen Fry's blog 17th October 2008

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NAME	Carwardine, Mark
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Conservationist, presenter, and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	1959-03-09
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